As the highest expression of Britain’s woodlands, oaks support more life than any other native tree. For more than 200 years, the Feanedock oak in Derbyshire’s section of the National Forest has provided an anchor habitat for a multitude of insects, birds, animals and people. A tumbled-down hut lies in its shade, along with two large boughs the tree lost in recent summers to abnormal heat and drought.

But what does this mighty oak, now standing 120 feet tall, remember about its life since it was a tiny sapling in the early 19th century, when it greeted miners walking across the fields to work in the nearby, newly dug coal shafts? According to the authors of our latest Insights long read, much more than you might imagine. Their research shows how environmental stresses can be embedded deep in the memories of older individuals – sometimes with a warning. The trees tell us there could come a time when they can no longer cope with climate change.

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